League News

Whatever shortcomings the five seed had through their ho-hum five and five regular season have been cleaned up when it counts. Captain Rob Gaudio’s ‘Threat Level Midnight’ ticked and tocked past another high seed, completing a sweep of #4 Brown, #1 Orange (OT), and #2 Red (SO) to punch their ticket to the 2023-24 Winter League Final. Red remain alive, with the winner of Orange v Green the only thing standing in the way of a big, blockbuster playoff sequel on March 10th.

In spite of Michael’s request to ‘crunch those numbers again’, there was no saving the The Michael Scott Paper Company. Things don’t always go ‘by the numbers’, and sometimes even the higher seeds in the SDFHL playoffs feel the crunch. A shocking Week Two put both the three and four seeds out of business, and even served notice to the one seed. Of the higher seeds, only Captain Linke’s Red has kept a clean/solvent record to this point, and all four lower seeds remain in the market for the Cup as we head into another round of closures this Sunday…

Anything can happen in the do or die (and do away with the concept of a tie) post season, but SDFHL’s first leg on the road to the Cup has historically gone in a fairly ‘by the numbers’ fashion. Captain Kaitlyn Brusso’s sixth-seeded ‘Golden Dundies’ bucked that trend, and extended Blue’s shocking three game slide with a 4-2 rally to victory. Black also overcame as an underdog, and both top seeds (Orange and Red) needed OT to survive a first round humbling, leaving the field wide open as we move into the knockout rounds…

It’s fitting, thematically, that Captain Joel Gattey’s ‘DWhite Schrutes & Scores’ would follow in their namesake’s footsteps and hit a peak with the ‘Assistant To The Regional Playoff Teams’ title. After a tough, short-benched loss to Black in their finale, White were still very much alive, needing just a loss from either Neon or Green to punch them through…nope. Even ‘The Silencer’ could not save this team…they just really schruted their way out of the playoff picture…best of luck at Staples!